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This important book for scientists and nonscientists alike calls attention to a most urgent global problem: the rapidly accelerating loss of plant and animal species to increasing human population pressure and the demands of economic development. Based on a major conference sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institution, Biodiversity creates a systematic framework for analyzing the problem and searching for possible solutions.
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This book helps the reader understand the conceptual problems and real–world implications raised by efforts to protect biodiversity. The goal of this book is to clarify the role that human values play in creating practical definitions of the term biodiversity. The concept of biodiversity, according to the authors, is both more subtle and more difficult to employ in practical situations than is commonly appreciated.
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Conceptualizing and assessing biodiversity and setting conversation priorities are not narrowly defined biological problems–they are broad based human enterprises with a large social and political component. Human resources are not sufficient to protect all of biodiversity, and difficult choices of what to conserve lie ahead. The goal of this book is to clarify the role that human values play in creating practical definitions of the term biodiversity.
This book is written for conversation decision makers: conversation biologists, lawmakers, and policy planners in governmental and non–governmental agencies; business people in fields such as agriculture, forestry, and paper products; and students in al of these fields.
E.O. Wilson, Harvard University, Editor; National Academy of Sciences/Smithsonian Institution
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- PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0309037395
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